Author Question: In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred around the time of ... (Read 80 times)

sjones · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred around the time of birth or in the first six months of life, researchers found that __________.

A) language functioning was highly lateralized from birth to age 5
B) compared with spatial skills, language skills were more impaired after early brain injury
C) undamaged areasin either the left or the right hemispheretook over certain language functions
D) children never fully caught up in vocabulary or grammatical skills

Question 2

Which of the following is true about brain plasticity?

A) Brain plasticity is restricted to childhood.
B) Brain reorganization does not occur in a mature brain.
C) When a young brain is injured, its functioning is rarely compromised.
D) A young brain can reorganize in a way that the mature brain cannot.